Marilyn Horne Quotes

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

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• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure

• I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Cool
  • Statistics
  • Be kind

• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Speed
  • Fast
  • Competitors

• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Know
  • Process
  • Creation

• As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Country
  • Power
  • Support

• I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Book
  • Boxes
  • Decorating

• Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Political
  • Peace
  • Priority

• I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Money
  • Think
  • Free

• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Money
  • Popular

• You can sense their anger before they even say a word.

  

  Ben Carson

• The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

  

  Mary Douglas

• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Witty

• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  

  James Whistler
  • Time
  • Long

• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Live
  • Remember

• Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Yoga

• I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Running

• For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Fitness

• A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Children
  • She
  • Food

• While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Education
  • Cutting
  • Dawn

• Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

  

  Marilyn Horne
  • Breathe
  • Percent
  • Singers